Coats will be collected for one more week, in the 26th Annual WBAL "Coats for Kids" campaign.

Coats for both children and adults are being collected at Zips Dry Cleaners locations in the Baltimore area through Saturday.

The coats are cleaned and repaired at no cost, and are then distributed to needy families in late November, or early December.

Organizers are hoping to collect 2,000 coats,

Last year the drive collected 1,800 coats.

Coats collected in Baltimore County are picked up by Maryland National Guard soldiers, and the dropped off at the Baltimore County Fire Stations in Woodlawn and Dundalk.

Coats will be distributed at the Woodlawn station on November 21, and at the Dundalk station on November 23.

Baltimore County Fire Dept. Capt. Joe Griebel says working on the drive is a "humbling experience."

"When somebody leaves (after getting a coat), they'll come up and says to you, 'I want to thank you and the fire department personally, because if you woulnd't have this drive, my children wouldn't have a coat this winter.' That's our motivation for doing this," Griebel said.

John Rusnak, owner of the Zips locations in the Baltimore says the coats collected at the Baltimore City store will be distributed November 23 and 24 at the store on Washington Boulevard.

He says the coats collected in Anne Arundel County and Howard County will be distributed at the Zips stores in those counties during the first weekend of December.